Last modified: 2014-10-08 10:12:13 UTC
Adds a link to Kaltura and the Kaltura logo to every video when played. Adding links to a third party commercial website to every video on wikipedia goes against generally accepted principles of wikimedia projects. The copyright status of the logo is also unclear.
FYI: this was first commented here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Remove_MwEmbed
Raising priority since it is now deployed on WMF wikis. See also bug 41908 comment 0.
I'm looking into what we can do now.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals/Archive_3#Remove_MwEmbed this link can be "easily disabled for 3rd party sites via a configuration option".
... If nobody knows what the configuration option is, maybe it should just be hidden with CSS until someone figures out how to get rid of it entirely?
Hidden through CSS on en.wp.
Note The link was change in code to link to html5video.org a while back ( no longer linking to kaltura.com ) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/TimedMediaHandler.git;a=commitdiff;h=86ed37e98a44b46fa69f8c1b781d18f35900749e;hp=7f40d5a46702cfcba474542f697cdc21c451a2de
(In reply to comment #7) > Note The link was change in code to link to html5video.org a while back ( no > longer linking to kaltura.com ) Lowering priority as we don't link to Kaltura anymore. Wondering if anything is left to do here, or whether this ticket can be fixed?
(In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #7) > > Note The link was change in code to link to html5video.org a while back ( no > > longer linking to kaltura.com ) > > Lowering priority as we don't link to Kaltura anymore. > > Wondering if anything is left to do here, or whether this ticket can be > fixed? html5video.org is just another Kaltura site so we face exactly the same problem
Per comment 9.
Sorry for the delay in reporting on this. We've been discussing matters with Kaltura. Fabrice has been leading this conversation, so I'll turn it over to him.
Thanks, RobLa. We plan to revisit this issue shortly when we get ready to integrate Kaltura's new player with Media Viewer in coming weeks. Will discuss this with community members to make sure we address issues raised in this thread.
(In reply to Fabrice Florin from comment #12) > Thanks, RobLa. We plan to revisit this issue shortly when we get ready to > integrate Kaltura's new player with Media Viewer in coming weeks. Will > discuss this with community members to make sure we address issues raised in > this thread. Fabrice: Has this happened or is this on the list for the next weeks? And is this really high priority?
The file MwEmbedModules / EmbedPlayer / EmbedPlayer.config.php should have line 78 changed from "EmbedPlayer.KalturaAttribution" => true, to "EmbedPlayer.KalturaAttribution" => false, ...
Change 165119 had a related patch set uploaded by Kaldari: Remove link to Kaltura from video player https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165119
Change 165119 abandoned by Kaldari: Remove link to Kaltura from video player Reason: Apparently the proper way to attribute Kaltura hasn't been settled, so abandoning for now. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165119
This is going to be addressed by the next version of the player, but isn't going to be changed in the current implementation.
(In reply to Ryan Kaldari from comment #17) > This is going to be addressed by the next version of the player Where's "the next version of the player" defined/explained? When is that going to happen? Is there a plan for a "next version" or is that wishful thinking?